​​DALLAS-FORT WORTH - North Texas and the Houston area had the greatest percent gain in the number of restaurants open last fall among the five largest U.S. metro areas, according to a report released by the NPD Group.

North Texas had 13,763 restaurants in the fall of 2015, up 2 percent from the fall of 2014.

The Woodlands-Houston area had 12,339 restaurants in the fall of 2015, also up 2 percent.

New York-New Jersey, the largest of the metro areas, saw a 3 percent drop in the number of restaurants, to 46,793. That works out to one restaurant for every 431 New Yorkers.

The Texas tally works out to one restaurant for every 508 people for DFW and one for every 528 residents of the Houston area.